145 



299. 



with narrow black shaft lines ; primaries 

 dark brown, notched with white ; lower 

 back, rump and tail blue-grey, the tail 

 with broad subterminal band of black and 

 tipped with white ; below pale rufous 

 fawn, chest with black streaks, becoming 

 spots on flanks ; thighs rufous buff, throat 

 and under tail-coverts buff, unspotted ; 9 

 above entirely rufous, banded with black, 

 with only a bluish shade on rump ; tail 

 rufous barred with black ; below paler. 

 Cerchneis tmnuncida tinnuncula Linn., 

 S.N., i., p. 90 (1758). C Europe" ^Sweden.] 

 Common Kestrel. 



Europe, 

 from 68^ N. 

 in Scandi- 

 navia and 

 61° N. in 

 Russia to 

 Mediter- 

 ranean and 

 N.W. 

 Africa ; 

 Brit. Isles ; 

 W. and C. 

 Asia ; in 

 winter to 

 Africa and 

 India. 



Below deeper and warmer than in typical 

 form ; which it quite equals in size. 

 299a. Cerchneis tinnuncula rupicolcsformis Brehm, 

 Vogelfang, p. 29 (1855). [ex. Wtirttemberg 

 MS. — "Egypt and Germany"; restricted 

 type loc. Egypt. 'I 

 Egyptian Kestrel. 



Egypt, 

 Nubia. 



Larger and averaging paler above and 

 below ; wings and tail longer, the latter 

 especially much longer than in other forms; 

 wing S 9.85-10.10, ? 10.20-10.50; tail <S 

 Q>,1S-1.1S, $ 7.0-8.0 ins. 



